China News Service, March 16th. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 16th, a research team led by an assistant professor of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and a biotech start-up company in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture Announced that they have jointly developed a new method to detect the new coronavirus. The virus can be observed through an electron microscope to confirm whether it is infected.
Nucleic acid testing, which is currently widely used, sometimes needs to wait about 4 hours for the results to be obtained.
According to reports, through the new detection method, it only takes 2 minutes to determine whether the infection is.
Data map: In the Ginza shopping area in Tokyo, Japan, a staff member is standing next to a mobile phone called "WOSH".
This machine can provide convenient hand washing and cleaning services for passers-by and help prevent the new crown virus.
The R&D party used the same sample as the nucleic acid test for comparison, and the results showed that the agreement between the two methods for positive judgments was 72% to 94%.
The research team pointed out that this shows that the new method has a high accuracy rate.
The researchers commented that “the new detection method is fast and simple, and can achieve a large number of detections” and hopes to be put into use in the summer of 2021.